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- Francisco Vasquez de Coronado (3639 bytes)
5: He was born in [[Salamanca]], [[Spain]].
7: ...tion of 340 Spanish, 300 Indian allies, and 1000 slaves, both native Americans and Africans.
9: ...w Mexico. There he was met by disappointment. Cibola was nothing like the great golden city fray Marco...
11: ... mouth of the Colorado(?), to meet [[Hernando de Alarcón]] who would be shipping supplies for Coronad...
12: ...ernando de Alvarado]] was sent east, and found villages around the [[Rio Grande]]. Coronado set up his... - Steel (28384 bytes)
3: ...r]] than iron, but is also more [[brittle]]. One classical definition is that steels are iron-carbon a...
5: ...-based alloys that can be [[plasticity (physics)|plastically]] formed (pounded, rolled, etc.).
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11: ... due to its [[pearl]]-like appearance, or the similar but less beautiful [[bainite]].
13: ...e strength of ferrite. Martensite has a very similar unit cell structure to austenite, and identical ... - Bagpipes (20858 bytes)
3: ...reed]]s. The term is equally correct in the singular or plural, although pipers most commonly talk of...
6: ...stand.jpg|right|thumb|A set of Scottish Great Highland bagpipes.<br>
16: ...ome popular amongst many pipers, particularly Highland pipers. In the Middle east, and the Balkans, a ...
23: ...eather bag and combining it with a chanter and inflation device seems to have originated with various ...
25: ...ti", is traditionally said to have been the tune played as [[Robert the Bruce]]'s troops marched to [[... - November 4 (10686 bytes)
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9: ... England|William, Prince of Orange]]. They would later be known as [[William and Mary]].
12: ...es|Union]] supply base and destroy millions of dollars in material.
14: ... States Republican Party|Republican]] [[James G. Blaine]] in a very close contest to win the first of ...
15: ...pia|Menelek of Shoa]] obtains the allegiance of a large majority of the [[Ethiopia]]n nobility, paving... - List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
29: ...Abbot, Ezra]], (1819-1884), American biblical scholar
35: ...bbott|Abbott, Diane Julie]], (born 1953), British Labour MP
51: *[[Abd-el-latif]], (1162-1231), physician and traveller
53: *[[Paula Abdul|Abdul, Paula]], (born 1962), US musician
54: *[[Humayun Abdulali|Abdulali, Humayun]], (1914-2001), [[India]]n [[ornitholo... - Catherine II of Russia (9308 bytes)
5: ...less and widely supported coup d'etat. Six months later, on [[July 17]], [[1762]], Peter died from ill...
9: ...e [[serf]]s was created to make this document the law, but she disbanded the commission before it took...
11: ...s. She also encouraged the [[colonization]] of [[Alaska]] and of conquered areas.
13: ...d encouraged education for the nobles and middle class.
17: ...sburg]] League. When it became apparent that his plan could not succeed, Panin fell out of favor and i... - Eleanor Roosevelt (11183 bytes)
3: ... States]] from [[1933]]-[[1945]]. An active First Lady, she traveled around the United States promotin...
5: ...sident [[Harry S. Truman]] called her the ''First Lady of the World'', in honor of her extensive trave...
9: ...rations outside marriage by FDR (See [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt|FDR]] for more information.)
11: ...ed to [[New Amsterdam]] ([[Manhattan]]) from [[Holland]] in the 1640s. His grandsons, Johannes and Jac...
16: ...sexual]]. Historians disagree about the theory [[Blanche Wiesen Cook]], author of one of Mrs. Roosevel... - Mary Pickford (7523 bytes)
5: ...uently played in many melodramas and became a popular child actress in Canada.
7: ... in the cast. The play was produced by [[David Belasco]], who insisted that she assume the stage name...
9: ...]] in [[1929]], but retired from films four years later, after a series of disappointing roles and the...
11: ...tionship with [[Douglas Fairbanks (1883-1939)|Douglas Fairbanks]], an action-adventure film star. The ...
13: ...]]. However, Pickford's second marriage was also plagued with marital problems. Her stressful business... - Murasaki Shikibu (2682 bytes)
1: ...n in [[Japanese language|Japanese]] between about 1000 and 1008, one of the earliest and most famous [[n...
3: ...Rozanji, a Buddhist temple in Kyoto, with ties to Lady Murasaki]]
4: ... father praised her intelligence and ability, but lamented she was "born a woman".
6: At the royal court, she was the lady in waiting for Empress Shoshi/Akiko, and may ha...
8: ...usly. The Murasaki Shikibu Collection was a compilation of 128 poems written by Murasaki. - Tori Amos (27672 bytes)
3: ...opean]] [[Billboard magazine|Billboard]] charts. Classically trained, Amos’s voice and mostly pi...
7: ...an studying at [[Montgomery College]] and began playing at piano bars, many of them gay, chaperoned b...
10: ...s N' Roses]]), and [[Brad Cobb]]. A year later, Atlantic Records gave Amos a 6 record contract. In 198...
13: ...leased in the UK, it went straight to #1. A month later, it was released in America to breakthrough cr...
16: ...our tracks were released as singles: "God", "Cornflake Girl" (a #4 single in the UK), "Pretty Good Yea... - Sunflower (5784 bytes)
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5: {{Taxobox_divisio_entry | taxon = [[Flowering plant|Magnoliophyta]]}}
6: {{Taxobox_classis_entry | taxon = [[Magnoliopsida]]}} - Cootamundra wattle (1558 bytes)
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4: {{Taxobox_regnum_entry | taxon = [[Plantae]]}}
6: {{Taxobox_classis_entry | taxon = [[Magnoliopsida]]}}
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15: ... Fabaceae]]. The Cootamundra is but one of nearly 1000 species of ''Acacia'' found in [[Australia]]. - Middle Ages (21063 bytes)
1: ...ion of European history]] into three 'ages': the Classical civilization of [[Antiquity]], the Middle A...
6: ...nic tribes|Germanic]] and later [[Slavic Peoples|Slavic]] peoples. The era of the migrations has histo...
8: ...rth Africa, Spain and some of the Mediterranean islands (including Sicily), increased localization by ...
12: ...itutional support for large scale chattel slavery largely disappeared.
14: ...cultural influence, preserving its selection from Latin learning, maintaining the art of writing, and ... - Medieval art (6359 bytes)
3: ...tory]] in [[Western art history|Europe]], the [[Islamic art history|Middle East]] and North Africa. It...
5: ...rt]], [[Trecento art]], [[Byzantine art]] and [[Islamic art]]. In addition each "nation" or culture in...
9: ...history of the interplay between the elements of classical, early Christian and "Barbarian" art.
13: ...ians traditionally look at it based on about nine large-scale movements, or periods.
15: ...es, when [[Arab conquest]]s and Byzantine [[iconoclasm]] halted the production of art in the East. Dur... - Glass (26176 bytes)
1: ... not giving enough time for a regular [[crystal]] lattice to form. A simple example is when [[Sucrose|...
3: ...ans as ''glaesum.'' Anglo-Saxons used the word ''glaer'' for amber.
5: ...pecific type of glass—the [[silica]]-based glasses in common use as a building, container or dec...
9: ...e properties lead to a great many uses of glass. Glass is, however, brittle and will break into sharp ...
13: '''Common glass''' is mostly amorphous [[silicon dioxide]] ([[S... - Jewellery (4234 bytes)
3: Examples include [[bracelet]]s, [[necklace]]s, rings, and [[earring]]s, as well as items l...
5: ...g leads back to the Latin word "jocale", meaning plaything.
7: ...sirable. Some cultures have a practice of keeping large amounts of wealth stored in the form of jewell...
30: * [[1500 BC]] - Earplugs and earrings become popular in Egypt.
34: * 1400 BC - Very copper rich gold alloys popular in Egypt. - Greek language (35285 bytes)
1: {{language|name=Greek|nativename=<i><font lang="el">Ελληνικ...
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3: ...aly]], south [[Republic of Macedonia|Former Yugloslav Republic of Macedonia]], central and south [[Bul...
7: [[Greek languages|Greek]]<br>
13: .../}} – "Hellenic") is an [[Indo-European]] [[language]] with a documented history of some 3,000 y... - Imhotep (3367 bytes)
1: ...rt provided by <br> [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip Art]]]
5: ...C but may perhaps go back to texts written around 1000 years earlier.
7: ... chaos back. Due to the position this would have placed him in, he was also sometimes said to be Nuit'...
13: ...movie)|The Mummy]]'', and of a similar character played by [[Arnold Vosloo]] in the [[1999]] movie ''[...
21: * [[List of Egypt-related topics]] - Andrew Jackson (23546 bytes)
10: | place of birth= [[Waxhaw, North Carolina|Waxhaws area...
13: | place of death= [[The Hermitage]], [[Nashville]], [[T...
18: ...ent had either been a member of the [[Virginia]] plantation [[elite]], or had been named [[Adams]]. Ja...
22: ...eling that they were too inclined to favor and emulate their former colonial masters. Jackson admired ...
24: ...prosper in the rough-and-tumble world of frontier law. He became a colonel in the state militia, which... - Grover Cleveland (20963 bytes)
3: <caption><font size="+1">'''Grover Cleveland'''</font></caption>
4: ...olspan=2>[[Image:Grover Cleveland.jpg|Grover Cleveland]]</td></tr>
18: <tr><td>'''Place of Birth:'''</td><td>[[Caldwell, New Jersey|Cal...
20: <tr><td>'''Place of Death:'''</td><td>[[Princeton, New Jersey|Pr...
21: ...<td>[[Rose Cleveland]] (sister)<br>[[Frances Cleveland]] (wife)</td></tr>
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